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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GlaziusF" data-source="post: 4557105" data-attributes="member: 74166">But the thing is, you'd be wrong, at least when you're put up against other humans told to judge your responses based on creativity.That's the giant paradox of the whole thing - that when told to judge how creative something is, people judge it by how different it is from what they themselves would create when told to be creative."Here are some guidelines: be creative" is pretty much guaranteed to fail. Not that "here are no guidelines" is really any better, because then people work from the underlying bits.Such as, for example, taking the ratio scale of hit point numbers and constructing a model based on what they know about ratio scales - linear continuums with a defined zero point.Okay, but now you've replaced a single problem with hit points with a varying set of problems about hit points:If all the examples shared a common theme, people would triangulate toward that theme.If all the examples were completely random, people would complain they didn't think any of them fit, and then blink uncomprehendingly when told, yes, that's the point.If the examples were based around power origin, such as my three, then you'd have people of one origin complaining its associated damage model didn't work for them and another origins might work better, and blinking uncomprehendingly when told, yes, that's the point.And NO MATTER WHAT you'd have everybody who doesn't give a care  about narrating hit points complaining about all this arty-farty imagination-and-rainbows crap in their D&D.It wouldn't matter that the part about hit points was clearly marked as optional. I mean:OPTIONAL OPTIONAL OPTIONAL You may possibly now want to think about something that may be a red sports car OH GOD THAT WAS OPTIONAL YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO DO ITAnd how well did that work? Ideas tend to stick.</blockquote>

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